Software Craftsmanship

 If you read this blog or our publications, you know how much testing is tied to software quality and, if I may say so, to software success. I insist on this point because all too often our customers treat tests as the fifth wheel when it comes to development. You know the consequences: an astronomical number of design anomalies, pernicious bugs in production and, worse still, software which ossifies little by little. This article is the first in a series, and will mostly address theory.…

Alright, story time fellas. TL;DR; We’re working with Terraform, layering and workspaces. This makes the standard `terraform workspace select x` pretty cumbersome and dangerous. We wrote a Ruby wrapper using Test-Driven Development. It allows us to have a tested, maintainable and efficient solution to the aforementioned issue. You can find the actual project here: https://github.com/sebiwi/terraform-wrapper If you keep reading, we’re going to talk about scripting, Test-Driven Development, Terraform and Ruby.

This is another episode of the “The Wizard” series. If you haven’t read the previous episodes, you can find them here and here. You just don’t know how to do it. You’ve been thinking about it for a while too. It’s an important issue. The crafting of the spell is the most important part. The journey is usually more important than the destination itself. But you don’t feel like you are doing it right.

Interview with Woody Zuill who will be teaching a Masterclass Mob programming with Octo Academy on May 28th.